The Sun. — London, England, 1818-02-24 00:00:00

'fleet" I univer gj which is ; Dre, gin!, ,upr b a tided 1111* big COO (on Y °l ' s ficcord' f be I mils hoevyrf er follo sl of y°" t. rvfint> e odeof AO 06 . , bANcP)4 4 , of the 'I W 6ter oboe. re Pfg n a fter bou i° sell' ce lie for one ore - es t ; of is p r o , . ...... 5. 11) 0 ; (1 , 19 ow' :el" th 6 ieo6 n or freeton "h... Egypt; is comp l etely and entirely tie DilesneX, Feb. 3.—The principal 'points in (lise"ssjon b etween Prus s i a an d S axony are at length arranged, and it is thought that but tcw obstacles will now arise." .txTRA .CT or A LETT ER FROM BUENOS AyRES, DATED Dfic. 15. The Portuguese ship Haim', rllailin sent in by the Priv ateer, has lately been restored by Ilijs al Government, after a l ong i nvest i gation with Init te tiener LE, R, at M onte Video, who desired stipulati on as security from thi s Govern -I,4"it for a ll losses and damage occasioned by the sql ernio n. g tr i 'lters from Demera, dated th e 16 t h u l t . ex - Iviellts Shun g a prehensio ns t h at t h e Negroes there .14 4he seduced away by th e S pan i sh P atr i ots, and z e h injury in consequence result to the Colony. tiveteSn;unnah Republican of the 12th of January f an account of another battle having been _N th t the Indians and Major Mut.EtcsuaGa oq tle27th ult. Major MULENBUAGH was ascend -11: t ' le first river with three vessels, having on 14 I. : the tnited States troops ; he was attacked ti " , l° iti'llans, from both sides the River, but t th e 4.liant way i n wh:ch the troops de -1,441 l themselve s i n t h e i r vessels, they were Y defeat e d , with the loss of 'about 50 killed kin l ' i. 2° 14Toundecl. M a j or MULENBURGH had 3 to, 4r i 13 wounded. Captain Mrlcsyrostip who 41044en4(1s a po st 12 miles from Port Scott, with t 4., was attacked on the 15th by 300 Indians. k 11414 111 INTosur d e f eated them without losin ill et 41 g ' but G t has since b een relieved. General 1 -11 fore'ft 4 , at th e h ead of 1000 men, left Hart- Nc,t the Indian nation o n t h e 27 t h ti l t., an d . h it tileCtetl daily at Fort Scott when this dis hiiiith lef t. 7th Ja7..:ary, when it was suppOsed tai general e and vig orous engagement would kir k AC T up A LETTER FEoNrTHE HAVANNAH, DATED THE 7TH LILT. "hfilently asserted here, that Don tet c the Spanish Minister, is only anxious to "1111°(/OPE AURY 'away from Amelia Islatul, - "L of his abhorrence to the Slave Trade." 'til e L., ____,,,, , People of th;, c , "IN, the loyal, the judic i ous are Peri,.‘4citit'Y, whom we are proud to say 00 tr kt ; PS the Wiliest st,s4 moat virtuous People Itithat*te °fi,..llllqlube, will read, we are persuaded, le e°l et i't " 16 *It sati,fa e ti ou , the Report of t he u tete a en : l4 , ilt te of the House of Lords, de - f qreotit 'e''l.ay to their Lordships by the Duke o 411 thlllnsit• It i s a f u ll and complete answer to 4 1 ( t e se'fiti'lis inci - entents, insidious pretences, IV tit 17sPhisti°,11 arguments of the Opposition til e ,, tr- ) wliti seem as if they wished the Govern i%. t h t° be overturned, merely for a chance of liav t..th.eil' Party restored to power ; though the silly lit ( I-tliell, if they were capable of reflection, would 4'l'44', ti,, ill case of th e subversion of our "steal pre- Itti4:°"t fabric, they-would he buried in ( be l Pri,,,;' w 'ls the Case with most of the origina l ° ttrs f ( F renc h IQ 1 • )1) What is the at e . 0 tue ...evo tan . . 1 1 1 , °I. tile question to which the public ou ght kiite 41e eted 1 O n one slit,. they see a Com . - Er: e f°ld of characters whose . prin I- I( i ' i canll() t be impeached. and whose Judgmen.t t 4 ' Med , "Pon the evidence of facts. This p p 414" tee declares, that they had found tile°4lskof intended general insurrection against t t‘ E n ver"fliel't--that the fully concur willi and ' :11 1 t h e ' -Y • the Second tt, t , ,le stweirients laid befo r e . . )n et ll' (,ntlitnittec last SessiOn—iltat the intention vt,l:"lthels was decidedly to , overturn the Go ilteli:'''ltliat no doubt can remain of the ex litist ttle/f s.ellitious plans and conspiracies, and 4 the'el‘vtte frustrated by the active measures l'ttp 4‘itive Government and' the vigilant ~ •hatiaii, ! 'They ark ndw ,t'ke ill , the Magistrates. . sa `4,,lt e i ehit y of the Government in being bklet 14,11(i bti ng' very few to punishment ; that the '41 4 1 o f tike People were untainted ; they i.t'tclitile moderation with which Ministers had I,,i'N," the Po wers which had been entrusted to /lilt' Thept OhServe with pleasure the employ , . 1 41. t, ""st classes, and the growing demand 'itt,,:)'t Man ufactur es '; b ut they state that ill -1'4413" ..11 . anti disaff ecte d P eople still remain in x 44 , it .l, ml 10 I.• - ;equire the active observation of it mist It ~,.- trate% Finally, they declare, that bay 'l'tlt-QtlinEtl the grounds on which Persons were ti etl .„ 14 t hey bad not discovered one act of the ti t r'ltt i , ‘k:-. it -t tuvtards them which was UNJUSTIFIA t)Ci flintier, that not oneof them was arrested or Pt • /p p Y Information upon Oath, and they were all tp 11 '44 . 01 ) is Otscharged.ai the country became more I, 'l'lll 4 4, .) ' l ntl wo u ld allow of suet: lenity. Such ° il ttt 341 e of the question: • A Committee whose 1i4.. tltittlea ot cannot b e d eceived, and whose tno *"t;t of be inyeached—on the oth er , a e , (l tt. ,ItNignant Scribblers, who are constant l y seliie:`)iiring in their jaeohizljeaf Prints to bring ' 51 : 1 the Government and ruin on the C°un • try. Men .11' h o oppose falsehood to fact, and so phistry to reason, and to whom. may well be ap plied the observation of the Committee, that there are some ill-disposed and disaffected persons, though few in number, still so active in London — (look to their daily columns !)—as to render a continuance of the vigilance of the Executive Government and of the Magistrates necessary," if we would preserve our present, and, we hope, perpetual, happy Establishment in, Church and State. We are assured by our Correspondent at Paris, who is too respectable to flatter, and whose op portunity of knowing the fact will not admit of a doubt,,that THE SUN is taken in by ALL the French Ministers. We hope, then, that its prin ciples will stimulate their loyalty, and Induce thou to rid themselves of Jacobin connexions of every description, as hollow, subtle, ambitious,. blood-thirsty, and capable of every thing that is atrocious and destructive. i - pers of s ilos F.Lio" parjs• D t Wo ~ e N ei° ted it/ pow" colt* e crtlit . r., o°‘ its ob' Ijo Ore ren e ' deter - e dis" ill at „, of been a dig' to UE of bis , con• dfl eS° SHIP NEWS.' The under -mentioned Company's ships arrived at Calcutta as follows, viz.:—The Atlas and Ge neral Kid, the 10th July ; the Marquis of Wel lington, the 25th July; the Minerva and Streatham ; the 27th July ; the Rose and Princess Charlotte of Wales, the 13th of August ; the. William Pitt and Carnatic, the 2Stli AuguNt ; and the,Thomas Grenville and Lord Castlereagh, the Ist Sept. The Waterloo and Wiuchilsea left Penang for Malacca and China the 25;h July. The Danira, outward-bound, put into Plymouth the 21st inst. AMSGATE, FEB. 23.—The Johannes, LIND- Boom, of Stockholm, from Hamburg') for Lisbon, with wheat, was lost on the Kentish Knock on the morning of the 21st inst. The Master and crew were .taken - off the wreck by Captain A., SMITU, of the sloop Hoop, and landed here this day. PosTsstluTti, FEB. 23. Arrived the brig Elizabeth, ziorsa, from Gibraltar tot Poole, with a cargo of salt, and is tinder quarantine. LIVEIIPOoL, Fes. 22.—Arrived the Neptune, WADE, from Rio Janeiro, in 70 clays. On the 18th inst. in lat. 48. 43. long. 14. 30. spoke the Beisey, SrrtTH , from.this port tor Rio J.meiro.— The H►bernia, BROWN, front New Orleans, sailed the 4th Janotity, and feom Balize the 1101 Jan. On t h e 17tt► inst. off Mizen Head, spoke the Susan, REELING, from Liverpool to. Charleston. Yesterday, about three o'clock, her MAJESTY, accompanied by the Princeses AUGUSTA and ELI- , ZABETU, arrived at the Queen's Palace from Windsor. They were received -by the Doke of CLARENCE and the Duchess of GLOUCESTER. The Dukes of Yoate and SUSSEX soon alter paid their respects to their Royal Mother and Sisters. We lament to hear that the Duke of CLARENCE has received an account of the.death of the gal lant Captain FITZCLARENCB, his eldest son. - The demur to the un►on of the Duke of CLA RENCE with the Princess Royal of Denmark, is broken off, it seems, by the refusal of her Serene Highness. In consequence of which, the prepa rations for conducting the Princess to England are countermanded.—(Morning chronicle.) PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.--This Society, which is unrivalled in thw general assemblage of musical talent's, had their first Concert for the present season last -night at the Argyll Roma. We a►t mire the talents of the Members in the highest degree, but we cannot equally compliment them on thejudgMent of their selection. With their powers they might render Music capable of exciting the noblest feelings, but they are too fond of what may be styled The Stormy or the Rattling School, which gives employment to the instruments, indeed, but which is a kind of organized turbulence, con sisting of science without taste and feeling. It was said of HANDEL, that, iu the grandeur of his conceptions, he wished to introduce the thundering sublimity oh ORDNANCE into his or chestra, but if he had heard the music, if it be not profaning the Jelin, to which we allude he would perhaps have wished to direct his Ordnance against those who tniseniploy great talents on such compositions. On account of the indisposition of Mrs. SALMoN, Miss STEPHENS took her place in the first Act, and proved a charming substitute.—' The vocal department•was otherwise gratifyingly supported by Mr. anll Mrs. LACY, and MiSS GOODALL, as well as by Miss STEPHENS also in the second Act —Weictiser. led with 'his usual ability, and the Band consisted of the first per formers.—The Room was crowded. BUTtIAL OF HAITCH, THE MUJIDERER.--ThIS morning, at half-past eight o'clock, the body of Llaitch Was removed from Newgate in a cart to the lamp post fronting Giltspnr-street, a distance of about 100 yards, which space was lined on both sides by the City anti other constables, so that no obstruction might take • place during the melan choly sane. Haitch was placed on a board, on which was a small gallows, and to it was suspended the deadly weavon that•he committed the horrid deed with. On arriving at the appointed spot the Executioner, by order of the Under Sheriff, ex hibited the razor to the immense surrounding crowd. After this, the body and itwete thrown into a pit of the depth of about four feet, whi' h was imthediately filled up, and the mob quietly departed. • GOOD THINGS.—It seems, that among other good things which the Master. of Rolls derives from his office, he is entitled to one tun, or two Pipes of Gascony Wine, to be chosen for his use annually at Easter by the King's Butler, from the best that conies in the kingdom. Was it from a knowledge of this circumstance t.ha( Btstt,'the Lottery Contractor, took the idea of procuring Twelve Pipes of Port "%Vine for. the Holders of certain Blanks, iu 'addition to three frizes of 30,0001., and the ninety-seven other Capitals LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, SATURDAY, FEE. 23. LIBEL. THE KING V. FRANCIS GORE, ESQ. This was an indictment against the defendant, Lienteoant•General Gore, late Lieutenant-Gover nor of the province of Upper Canada, for pub •lishing a scandalous, wicked, arid defamatory libel of and concerning the character and conduct of Robert Tho-pe, Esq. LLD. formerly one of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench iu that pro vince, and tending to bring the prosecutor into hatred and contempt in his said office of Judge. Mr. SCARLETT, *Mr. RICHA.EDSON, and. Mr. TUR TON, conducted the case for the prosecution. It appeared that the prosecutor, in the year 1805, went out' to Upper Canada, to fill the office of one of the Judges of the -King's Bench in that Colony, and continued in office until the autumn of 1807, when he was appointee to the office of Chief Justice of Sierra Leone. In the, year 1806, the•defendant.' was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the Province, and continued iu office until 1816, when he returned to this country. In the course of the prosecutor's stay in the province, a pam phlet had been published by a person lainied Jackson, Containing strong animadversions upon the government of the defendant ; and in answer to that publication, another pamphlet issued from the press, 'in the form of a Letter, addressed to Lord Viscount Castlereagh, which arrived in this country in 1810, and contained the libellous mat ter charged in the present indictment. It was alleged that the defendant was either the author of this pamphlet, or that it was •written under his countenance and authority, and that copies of if were sent by him to Lord Castlereagh, Marquis Camden, Lord Sidmoath, and other distinguished persons, connected with the Government at home. TO prove the publication of the Libel, M. Serjeant Frith, lately Attorney-General of the province of Upper Canada, was examined. lie filled the office of Attorney-General from March, 1807,-to March, 1812. In a !ideate and confidential comnomication with the defendant, at the Government-house, shortly after the seces sion of the prosecutor from his judicial situation, the defendant put into his hands a copy Of the pamphlet in coestion, for the purpose of reading it. - The copy was taken from a box in his pre sence by the defendant, in which there appeared to he a great many other copies of the same publica tion. He did not consider that the Governor was ..acting on 'that occasion officially, or had com manicated with him with a.view to any ,official priiceeding ; but be considered it as a confiden tial corn.annication between two private Gentle men, which it would have beeu improper for him to divulge. Mr. Serjeant COPLEY, for the defendant, ob jected to the competency of - this evidence, con tending that every communication between'a Go vernor and the Law Officer of the Government, n4tist he considered as privileged, and consequent= ly not liable to protection ; but Mr. Justice ABBOTT-, •adverting to the manner and the intention with which the communication was made, according' to the witness's impressicin at the time, thought it admissible evidence of pub lication. The imputed libel was then rend. It was ad dressed " to Lord Viscount Castlereagh, one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of. State, &c. &c." an&commenced by calling his Lordship's at tention to the then state of the Province of Upper Canada, which was said to be disturbed by the turbulence and seditious faction of certain indivi duals, who took every means in their power of annoying the Government, and' alienating the affections of the people. It stated that the writer, in order to satisfy himself upon these points, and collact the most authentic information, had visited every part of the province, and had found that one of the principal agitators was a person named Jackson, who had _published a pamphlet, com plaining of the tyranny of the Governor, and al ledging that his Excellency bad driven from the ' highest offices gentlemen of the most honourable character, for having dared to oppose the arbi trary mandates of the Governor.' Upon enquiry, the writer bad found, that the principal authors of these seditious sentiments were a Dr. Thorpe, one of the Judges of the King's Bench, an Irish man, and the known associate of the celebrated rebel Emmet, a Mr. Wyatt, the Surveyor-Gene ral, and a Mr. Wilcox It charged Dr, Thorpe with having set nut in his judicial career with de livering seditioni and inflankinatory harangues to the Jury from the Bench, calctrlated to inflame their minds, and incite them to seditiOn. That in one of his charges he had commenced his ad dress to the ,Jury with these words, " Fifteen years disgraceful adininistration of this Govern ment calls loudly for interference;" and had gone on in a manner well worthy of such Ell opening. That another person named Wicks, formerly a clerk to Aaron Burr, Was another agent in these proceedings. That this person - also . had been called to tire b ar , i n t h e prov i nce, had procured signatures toaddresses written by the_ Judge himself, to himself, and. h a d f a b r i ca t e d s i gnatures to others, which were afterwards o ffi cially denied by the persons whose names were forged thereto.' That these addresses afforded the Judge an op portunity of ri;Ply'in terms calculated to incite se dition and rebellion, and alienate the affections of the people from the Governthent. That the printer of the Provincial Newspaper having re fused to lend himself to the dissemination of their seditious doctrines, they had established what they called the Independent Press, conducted by Wil cox, by which, they were 'enabled to pr,oceed more effectually in the work 'of sedition. It further charged Dr. Thorpe with having instigated Mr. Wicks, the Barrister above-mentioned, to fight a duel with another Barrister, named Dixon, who had been grossly insulted in Court by the latter. although be demanded the protection of the Judge,. in which affair Wicks was killed ; anti lastly, it charged him with having defrauded' several per sons just before he left the province. , This was the general complexion of the,libel. .• Dr. Thorpe was then examined, and he deposed as follows :—I landed in Canada in August, ISOS, and I left it time latter end of October, 'lBO7. had filled the office.of Judge during that time.= Mr. Gore Was Governor during greater part of the time, fie came into the office in July, 1806, and remained Governor' until I left the. Colony._ "I - first saw the pamphlet in May, 1810,, after the aetion . by Mr. Wyatt against -the dolendant.— After I left Canada I was appointed Chtef Justice of :Sierra Leone, which , was an office of greater emolument. lam the person, I believe, meant its • the pamphlet. I was one of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench. It was objected to the witness's denial of the truth of the publicatioN. Cross-examined by Mr. Serjeant Coi I LEY.—I had heard of the pamphlet before froin Mr. Jack son. 1 never. saw the pamphlet before the trial in the Court of Common Pleas, . between Mr. Wyatt and Mr. Gore. I did not know the whole of the, contents of the pamphlet bifure 'hat trial. I might have heard of it, but I had no curify,ity a'►out it. Mr: Wyatt told me that it grosdy at tacked me as well as himself, and t beret ore I cared nothing about it. I had read none of it ; of any part of it, until the trial in the Common Pleas. Re-estaminetiik—U u til that trial I was not ap prized qt the particulars of the Isamphlet. Lord Viscount Castlereagh examined by Air. SCARLETT.-1 have only a general recollection of the pau►phfet. I lisil reml it, but I !Five no recol lection of any particular passages. I have no re collection of having such a pampplet now in my possession. l was not in office in 1810, .to my recollection, at least without referring to the Red Book. Martinis Camden examined.—l do not recollect receiving at any time a copy of a printed letter from. General Gore, purportiqg to be addressed io Lord Castlereagh. [Pamphlet shewn to witness, but he said be had no recollection of having ever seen such a pamphlet.]. . Lord Sidmon7h was the next witness whom the prosecutor: intended to call, but .he did not come into Court until Mr. Searlett had closed his case. Mr. Serjeant CpPLEY, in an ingenious address to the Jury, contended that there was no proof whatever of any tnalrcious intention imputable to the defendant, for they must take it-that the com- . munication made to Serjeant Frith was an honest and bona. fide conference upon a subject relating to the general welfare of the Colony. He ex pressly denied that the defendant was the author of the pamphlet in question. Mr. Justice ABBOTT summed up the case, and the Jury immediately found the defeudant Guilty. INTERESTING DISCOVERY. Alderman Woon, to whom various complaints had been made since his return from France, up on the subject of the state of Nctvgate, thought necessary, after an ettatnination of that prison, to move in the House of Commons fora Com mittee to inquire into the causes of complaint.— : The Committee was appointed, and Alderman Wood elected Chairman. On t►►e first. day of in gliiry, which was Thursday last, the Committee were proceeding to investigate, ;rid had already seen enough to convince them of the very Fress ing necessity"ot making alterations in the several passages and wards, when a prisoner named Lu cas, upon whom sentence of death was s ,, me time ago passed, but wh:)se judgment vras lately respited, suddenly addressed Mr. Wood, and beg ged that he would attend to a recital which af fected the lives of Spicer and the two boys who lie in the ground cells for execution for pass ing forged notes. Mr. Wood listened with the utmost attention to be declaration of LIICRS, , who said he had been informed by a man named Parsons, the nephew of a Police officer, that there had been a plan he tWeen that officer and a wretch •named Finney, against the two boy!", and that the hair had taken, for the boys were condemned, and would be exe cuted. Mr. Wood immediately sent an Officer for Par sons, and having communicated to the Committee tle• information he had received from Lucas, a determination was made to examine into the par ticulars of the transaction. The CoMmittee, upon hearing 'all the cirtom itances, sent a deputation to Lord Sidmouth, re guesting that the sentence of the law, which is appointed to be put into execution to-morrow, sliould be defer; Td*, and stating, as aground foi• the request, that they bad reason to suppose, from recent facts, that Spicer and Kelly had been led to commit the crime of which.they were convict ed, by villains of much deeper depravity, and that it was the first crime of Spicer. The reply from 'Lord Sidmouth was, we are given to understand,' that the case had undergone the consideration of the Council, who were of opi nion that the sentence ot. the law should be put in force. The Committee proceeded yesterdiy further in the investigation. A number of the friends of the Members were assembled, amongst whom we ob served Sir Robert Wilson, Mr. Hobhouse, &c. Mr. Harmer, the solicitor, bad attended on the first day, at the request of Alderman Wood, and was employed yesterday most busily in the-inves tigation. He suggested that Emma Connor •and Ki•ty Cnnuolly, the. women who were the usual companions of Finney and Kelly, should be brought to Newgate. •lt was done with tht , great est dispatch. The Committee sent a secornl deputation to Lord Sidmonth to press the necessiry (f grantiog a respite upon the strong grounds disclosed in the testimony of these witnesses. A respite of a week was the consequence of this application. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. STATEMENT OF THE ODDS 0-N THE DERBY, OAKS, &C.—FEB. 23. DERBY. 10 to 1 agit c. by Waxy, out of Miltonia. 10 to 1 agst Dictator, out of.Hornby.Lass. 11 to 1 agst c. by Orville, out of Allegretta. 1 i to I agst Brother to Crecy. 14 .to ► agst c. by Waxy, ant of Ringtail. 14 to 1 agst c. by Seymour, out of Rosalina. OAKS. Taken— 5 to 1 agst Loo, by Waxy. 10 to 1 against any other. RIDDLEsNORTH STAKES. 5 to I agst Brother to Crecy. 5i to 1 agst Dictator. 7 to 1 agst c. by Waxy, out of Ring - tail.. Taken— 7i to 1 agst Harraton, out of Lancashire Witch. 8 to 1 agst Sister to Nectar. Taken ''"~:::~